Education Quotes

"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values." ~~ Dalai Lama

"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know." ~~ Louisa May Alcott

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." ~~ Dorothy Parker

"Children need models rather than critics." ~~ Joseph Joubert

"Education is the best provision for old age." ~~ Aristotle

"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things." ~~ Norman Douglas

"If you can dream it, you can do it." ~~ Walt Disney

"My heart is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed." ~~ Anne Sullivan

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you." ~~ Aldous Huxley

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." ~~ Mother Teresa

"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgement." ~~ Cousin Woodman

"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before." ~~ Elbert Hubbard

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." ~~ Chinese Proverb


"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ~~ Albert Einstein

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Education is more than filling a child with facts. It starts with posing questions." ~~ D.T. Max

"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us." ~~ Benjamin Franklin

"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read." ~~ Mary McLeod Bethune

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it." ~~ Margaret Fuller

"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it." ~~ Bill Bernbach

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." ~~ Harry S. Truman

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." ~~ Malcolm Forbes

"Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child." ~~ Mary MacCracken


"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." ~~ C. S. Lewis
"Nothing is ever achieved without enthusiasm." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Information cannot replace education." ~~ Earl Kiole
"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives." ~~ Clay P. Bedford

"How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 -- and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?" ~~ Arthur C. Clarke
"Be in charge of your own destiny, or some one else will." ~~ Jack Welch

"After all is said and done, more is said than done." ~~ Aesop

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." ~~ Marilyn vos Savant

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." ~~ Dr. Seuss

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." ~~ B.B. King

"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values." ~~ Dalai Lama

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." ~~ Mahatma Gandhi

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." ~~ Mahatma Gandhi


"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." ~~ Og Mandino

"Teachers shape the future one child at a time" ~~ unknown

"To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did" ~~unknown

"You don't write because you want to say something,
you write because you have something to say." ~~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves
after a journey that no one can take us or spare us." ~~ Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

"The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down
by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway." ~~ Kent M. Keith